Boxing's biggest rivalries

[StLGooner]

48-0 is hard to do these days. Wonder if anybody is close. It seems like everyone eventually gets beat when they hit that 30 win mark.

[niko197]

i think valuev had 48-0 before he was beaten by chagaev

[gzagee]

Holmes fought Spinks only twice, and it was at the end of Holmes career, but it pretty much brought the end to his career. But the first was a very contraversial decision that ended Holmes undefeated streak that included beating Ali.

You know, Holmes said "Ali was the most overrated fighter ever"

[gzagee]

48-0 is hard to do these days. Wonder if anybody is close. It seems like everyone eventually gets beat when they hit that 30 win mark.

Calzaghe is 36 or 37 and 0

[gzagee]

i think valuev had 48-0 before he was beaten by chagaev

(Said with a pinch of salt )

[gzagee]

Pacquio/Morales/Barrera is probably the modern day equivalent of great rivalries, I'd imagine.

[Libertine]

48-0 is hard to do these days. Wonder if anybody is close. It seems like everyone eventually gets beat when they hit that 30 win mark.

Calzaghe is 36 or 37 and 0

46-0

Although, like a lot of Frank Warren fighters, there's some awful mismatches on his record.

[gzagee]

I was told that up til the end of the 70's it was common for a world champ to fight 2 or 3 times in a year. Fifteen rounders.
Imagine today's champs doing that now.

[niko197]

I was told that up til the end of the 70's it was common for a world champ to fight 2 or 3 times in a year. Fifteen rounders.
Imagine today's champs doing that now.

tyson had 15 fights in his first year of proffessional career! 15 f***ing fights in 1985!!!!

[StLGooner]

I was told that up til the end of the 70's it was common for a world champ to fight 2 or 3 times in a year. Fifteen rounders.
Imagine today's champs doing that now.

tyson had 15 fights in his first year of proffessional career! 15 f***ing fights in 1985!!!!

Yea, but not too many of those lasted past the first few rounds I'm guessing.


I remember the day when Buster Douglas knocked out Tyson, it felt like someone killed my mom.

[Libertine]

tyson had 15 fights in his first year of proffessional career! 15 f***ing fights in 1985!!!!

Because he kept banging people out in the first 2 rounds.

[Libertine]

I remember the day when Buster Douglas knocked out Tyson, it felt like someone killed my mom.

It had been on the cards for a while though.
Tyson had looked like he was on the slide for a little while.

Tyson was one of those freaks of nature that peaked at around 21 rather than in his early 30's (like most heavyweights do).

[gzagee]

Once Gus D'mato died it was downhill form there. Nay, once Robin Givens and her mum got in on the act it was only gonna go one way.

[niko197]

tyson had 15 fights in his first year of proffessional career! 15 f***ing fights in 1985!!!!

Because he kept banging people out in the first 2 rounds.

true but that doesn't change the fact that he had to be prepared for 12 rounds. if you count that his first fight was in march 1985, his 20th fight was in march 1986! that means 20 fights in a year!!!
f***ing amazing!

[StLGooner]

Both true from Libs and g-man. Tyson was my hero back then, I remember seeing the picture of him being knocked out on the cover of Sports Illustrated in the super markert, and I knocked the whole stand over in disgust. I'm still bitter.